“1781 May 15 5 o’clock in the morning, light coming from the sun rising over the mountains strong on 4 vapour thin against F of the cascades / second mountain darker than the olive trees, & trunks of the trees dark against the mountains, the herbage of the cave in its lights a / clear bright green olive tree greyer” and numbered “16”

Provenance

Owned by Francis Alexander Gustavus Skardon Douglas (active 1927, d.1957), a descendant of John White Abbott, who sold it on 28 August 1946 to Agnew’s (no.4724). On 17 January 1947 Agnew’s sold it for £100 less £5 commission to Sir William Worsley, Bt (1890–1973), whose family sold it at Christie’s on 20 November 1984, lot 68, for £7,500, whereafter it is untraced.